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Episode 405: Andy Bagwell – PAPA 21

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago34 min listen
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It's here! The return of PAPA 21. Andy tells us about all the goodies this week at Enterrium in Schaumburg, IL for the return of a pinball Major event. Also, hear about how proceeds go to the 988...

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Highlights

  • PAPA 21 will have 72 players advancing to A-division playoffs, with additional B-division for players ranked 73-130
  • SSS3 (Silver Bowl Super Social 3) ran until 3 a.m. Saturday due to higher player skill levels and unchanged game settings from smaller field
  • Hentarium averages 80-90 players monthly for local tournament events, with recent monthly tournament drawing 107 players
  • Stern Pinball and Jersey Jack Pinball are giving away machines for PAPA 21 with raffle format available to all attendees
  • 20% of PAPA 21 event proceeds go to 988 Suicide and Crisis Line, with separate raffle tickets at $150 each going 100% to foundation
  • Andy Bagwell is ranked 15th in IFPA rankings and won both main and classic divisions at Pinball at the Zoo charity event
  • Bagwell's biggest competitive win was defeating Josh Sharp, DJ Real, and Dalton Eli in 2019 at Jack Danger's studio during Pinball Profile World Tour event

Notable quotes

“I do wear a lot of hats, Jeff. Hi, thanks for having me on, man.”
Andy Bagwell
“I would not miss it. Okay. If you did say no, I would understand because it's not like just running any event at Hentarium...This is different. Extremely different.”
Andy Bagwell
“I want to create a situation where not just 1 through 72...The players that are, if you have, let's say, 40 people make playoffs, well, that means that those 40 are obviously always engaged. Then you have 41 through...Those players kind of feel like they're kind of close, so they'll come back.”
Andy Bagwell
“It's like sports playoffs, Jeff. It's March Madness is what I want to create here...a player gets in here, some local player, an unknown player, scratches in at the 60th or the 50th spot or something, and they survive the big first round, and maybe they get hot, and they advance...suddenly this local player who nobody knows becomes another pinball celebrity.”
Andy Bagwell
“Stern actually had that idea...normally we give a game away for a big event like this and it goes to the winner...because this is a charity event we kind of want to spread the wealth around a little bit.”
Andy Bagwell
“I'm the unofficial arm of player incentive at the IFPA.”
Andy Bagwell
“Pinball was never the same to me...I could play the same pinball machine 50 times and win free games on it every time too. And I was always in love with it.”
Andy Bagwell
“You need to watch people that you think are better than you play pinball and then ask them questions about it afterwards...that's part of why I have this passion, Jeff, for like, I want to create a path for more people to become known in the pinball community.”
Andy Bagwell

Entities

  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • InDisc· event
  • PAPA 21· event
  • Pinball at the Zoo· event
  • Pinburgh· event
  • Silver Bowl Super Social 3 (SSS3)· event
  • 988 Suicide and Crisis Line· organization
  • Pinball Super League· organization
  • Andy Bagwell· person
  • Benji (Michael Benjamin)· person
  • Dalton Eli· person
  • DJ Real· person
  • Jack Danger· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person
  • Josh Sharp· person
  • Kevin Martin· person
  • Lyman· person
  • Penny Epstein· person
  • Tom Graff· person
  • Hentarium· venue
  • Woodfield Mall· venue

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